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CHALLENGE FE’S FIGHT REAL GUARANTEE OF BEING IN TO TACKLE OR POLICY NCG FAMILY HATE CRIME DECEPTION? Page 16 Page 7-8 Page 4 In-depth, investigative journalism, determined to get past the bluster & explain the facts for the FE & skills sector FEWEEK.CO.UK | @FEWEEK FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2020 | EDITION 319 Sixth formers exhibit creativity during lockdown page 10 terminated without warning ESFA quietly pull-plug on apprenticeship providers failing minimum standards despite claiming they would defer intervention during coronavirus crisis. Contracts end in July and apprentices will need to be found new providers if they are to finish their course. 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I’m calling on the government to The idea of an apprenticeship “guarantee” be clear about what it is they are offering here, Labour’s shadow apprenticeships minister has originally came from education select committee and not to use words like ‘guarantee’ unless they branded the prime minister’s “apprenticeship chair Robert Halfon, who tabled it Johnson during genuinely are guaranteeing that young people will guarantee” proposal a “deception”. last week’s liaison committee hearing. have an apprenticeship.” Toby Perkins told FE Week he was “concerned” It is not clear, however, exactly how an The Department for Education has provided a that young people were being given “false apprenticeship could be “guaranteed” and the statement in response to Johnson’s comments, but reassurance” by Boris Johnson at a time when they government has so far stopped short of explaining it fails to reference the “apprenticeship guarantee”. are facing “a very difficult job market”. how it would work, or even if it is an official policy A spokesperson said: “Apprenticeships are an His comments came after Johnson told the nation they are working on. excellent way to get into a wide range of rewarding during his coronavirus briefing on Wednesday Perkins said: “I am very concerned that a and valuable careers, and they will continue to that young people “should be guaranteed an deception is being performed here because the play a vital role in delivering the high-quality apprenticeship” after warning of “many, many job announcement as I understand it is that the skills employers need and that will support our losses” expected from the fallout of Covid-19. government will fund the learning part of an economic recovery post Covid-19. The prime minister added that young people “in apprenticeship, but we all know the most “We are looking at ensuring that we support particular” are at the highest risk of losing their expensive part of employing an apprentice employers, especially small businesses, to take jobs or being unable to find work, so “it is going is paying their wages, and if the government on new apprentices this year and will provide to be vital that we guarantee apprenticeships for aren’t offering to do that then this no further detail in due course.” young people”. way constitutes a ‘guarantee’. Halfon has written for FE Week on His comments made headlines across the “When young people who are why an apprenticeship guarantee is national media and has divided opinion in the facing potentially a very difficult Boris Johnson needed (see page 21). DfE to tackle ‘fake news’ with its own rapid rebuttal unit BILLY CAMDEN In March, the Cabinet Office announced this department guidance” following two stories that [email protected] unit would now combat misinformation about appeared last Sunday. Covid-19. It said that one in The Independent reported Exclusive There do not appear to be any other similar on claims made by National Education Union teams across Whitehall, which means the DfE joint general secretary Mary Bousted that the The Department for Education has set up a “rapid could have the first department-specific rebuttal department’s guidance to schools on how to rebuttal unit” to tackle “fake news”. unit. open to more pupils had been updated 41 times It is said to be one of the first department- Damian Hinds, the former education secretary, since May 12. specific teams in government to challenge raised the problem of fake news just before he The DfE claimed this was “untrue”; the “misinformation at the source” and rebuff was sacked in July 2019. He spoke at a social media guidance had been updated “just once since it “misleading content” before it reaches the summit about the “spread of misleading content was published last month”. mainstream. on vaccinations” in schools, but added this “issue Another article, published by The Mirror, Two job adverts for media officers state that this goes much further than that, and without firm reported that celebrity fitness guru Joe Wicks work is “more vital than ever” in making sure the action it is set to get a lot worse”. was due to lead a review of the PE curriculum, public is not “deceived by so-called fake news”. Gavin Williamson, his successor, has not publicly which the DfE said again was “not true”.